Recent content by victa15

I will when I get back home. The pin is still there. It just wobbles around because the welds are gone. Im not a welder

Hi. I have a question on how to go about re welding or replacing the passengers upper hood hinge pin. The welds came off and I can't get it from the back. Looks like a hard place to try to reweld it. Was thinking about taking the pin out and trying to get a collared bolt in there. Anyone come...

I measured and they both were the same size.

Hey so i pulled the valve covers and used a snapon jumper switch i have to crank the motor. I saw that he intake valve on cylinders 1 and 4 werent really moving. SlI pulled the rocker shafts off and found that those two pushrods had some scraping on them. I put in the ball type pushrods and...

But if they were milled the intake wouldnt fit

Yeah i agree. But the intake fit perfectly. And the machine shop said everything was good on the heads

Its ok. Any advice would be useful thanks

He heads were sitting for a few years. But i just got them rebuilt about a week before i swapped them

Heads have been sitting for a few years in my shed. The machine shop cleaned them and did a valve job with new stem seals

Thanks!!!

The valves, springs and guides were all from the 302 heads. Only thing i took off the other heads was the rocker arms and shafts

What do you mean height change? Sorry im still learning. I got the 302 casting heads from a junk yard years ago. Just had them rebuilt at a machine shop that i e been using for years. When i called they said they checked the springs and the were good. But. Im going to check for coil binding on...

Sorry. Im tired. I have a hydraulic cam with hydraulic lifters. My slant six was solid cam. There were no shims under the rocker shafts

I know. I want to call in from work today and start checking things out. I work nights amd my next day off is friday. But im going to start checking one thing at a time